Chonnam National University Hospital Promotes In-Hospital Infection Prevention Guidelines for COVID-19

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Yoon Jamin] Chonnam National University Hospital has launched a campaign to promote the ‘5 Precautions’ for visitors to prevent in-hospital COVID-19 infections.

Chonnam National University Hospital announced on the 2nd that, as local COVID-19 infections have recently spread and the alert level has been raised to ‘Severe,’ it has selected ‘special precautions’ to further strengthen hospital access control and is asking for active cooperation from visitors.

The promotional content includes precautions before and after entering the hospital, as well as guidelines for changing patient guardians, and these have been posted at the entrances of wards so that visitors can easily familiarize themselves with them.

The first precaution is to limit the number of guardians accompanying outpatients to one person. This aims to reduce the number of visitors and minimize factors of in-hospital infection.

The second is a measure to thoroughly block infections in inpatient wards, which are vulnerable to infectious diseases, by asking visitors to refrain from visiting patients until the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the same spirit, when changing patient guardians, it is recommended that the guardian holding the guardian pass exchange with the next guardian on the first floor of the ward rather than inside the inpatient room.

The third is a request to always wear a mask inside the hospital since there are many patients and people are often in close proximity while waiting, and to frequently use hand sanitizers installed throughout the hospital.

The fourth is to actively cooperate in filling out the questionnaire implemented to pre-screen visitors with fever or respiratory symptoms, as the scope of COVID-19 testing has expanded.

Lastly, visitors are urged not to enter restricted closed areas that have been blocked off to prevent unauthorized access and to control inpatient rooms.

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